...is so they can advertise for and appoint someone to call all the sex-lines and check that they're complying with all of ICSTIS's rules.

Could be a popular job.

(btw, I though ICSTIS has undergone a whalesong jos-stick moment and been re-branded?)

Given the context, I believe they should now be called ICKY STICK!

In some places you have to listen to the legal warnings and the price of the call - this is not billed - and then are told to press 1 if you want to go on and be billed from then on. Seems like common sense...

And you know this because? :-)

There was the cop who spent $10,000 on lap dances while performing surveillance on topless bars (and some all nude establishments).

Unless, as suggested above, the warning is made before charging, there is a huge incentive to delay the hapless punter with an excessively slow message. in fact I seem to remember an episode of The Simpsons featured Homer dialling a premium rate number and getting annoyed at the v-e-ry s-l-o-w speech.

By the way, there was a great story of a guy who sued a sex line for misrepresentation: the line was advertised 'hear me moan' and featured a woman complaining... The judge said he got what he deserved.